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Portrait Of A Village. With Engravings On Wood By Joan Hassall.
by YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1937 1st edition.. Hardback, 9 x 6.5 inches. Bound in black cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and gilt design to front. Publishers embossed logo to rear corner. Pictorial endpapers “Cuckoo’s-Eye View of Monk’s Norton.” In very good condition. In clear protective jacket. Some minor handling marks else cover clean and smart. Some mild foxing to endpapers, blank prelims and outer edge of page block. Neat inscription to half-title page “Nick, with love and best wishes, Xmas 1937, Mol.” Else a very good clean and tight copy. 180pp. With 30 B&W illustrations, including full-page and smaller vignette wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. A simple look at the makeup of village life told through one man’s view of an imaginary village.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89276
- Title
- Portrait Of A Village. With Engravings On Wood By Joan Hassall.
- Author
- YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1937 1st edition.
- Keywords
- ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG, Portrait, Village, village life, imaginary, first edition, Joan Hassall, Engravings On Wood, William Heinemann Ltd., 1937, 1st, Monk’s Norton, animals, natural history, Down the Lane, Country Doctor, country
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
Biblio member since 2016
Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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